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M. AND R. B. PACKARD, vOF- NORTH BRDG'EWATER, MASSACHUSETTS.

' Letters Patent No. 60,543, dated December 18, 1,866.'

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON CERN:

Be it known that we, MnLvIN PACKARD and R B. PACKARD, of North Bridgewater, in the -county ofl Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Shoe-Binding; and We do hereby declare that the following,A taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this'specication, is a description of our invention, sufficient to enable thoseskilled in the art to practise it.

The invention relates to the manufacture of shoe-piping'or binding, and particularly to that class of bindingapplied for the purpose of having a beaded or rounded edge projecting'from the edge of the shoe, the opposite edge of the binding being generally stitched between the outer leather and the liningf vthe shoe. Theinvention consists of a leather or imitation leather binding made of a strip of even Width, doubled or folded in the direction of its length, and having a cord running through the fold, said cord being kept in position by cementingfthe adjacent surfaces of the binding together, and the cord giving a permanent bead to the presented edge, with a degree -of firmness or rigidity which will prevent the binding from breaking. down. I

The drawing represents in elevation and in cross-section a strip of this binding, and also a boot-top having the binding applied thereto. A strip of'leather, or artificial leather,.a, of even Width has a cord, b, laid along the centreof its inner surfaceQand the strip is doubled or folded over thiscord, the opposite edges being brought together and the adjacent sidescemented, leaving the upper edge of the binding in` the form of a bead, as seen at c. The binding thus put together mayv be passed through rolls, or have an' edge gauge run along its beaded edge, which fshall leave the bead projecting entirely on the dress side of the binding, or that portion which is to be outermost when applied to the shoe, or the beaded edge may be formed to project equally from each face of the binding below it, as circumstances may dictate. y i

We claim, as a new article of manufact-ure, a shoe-'binding` having a" construction substantially as set forth.

e "MELvIN PACKARD,

n. B. PACKARD.

Witnesses:

F. Gouw, S. B. KIDDEB. 

